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posted by janrinok on Wednesday February 21 2018, @07:20PM   Printer-friendly
from the AI-labor-laws dept.

A report written by academics from institutions including the Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge Center for a New American Security, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and OpenAI warns that AI systems could be misused:

AI ripe for exploitation, experts warn

Drones turned into missiles, fake videos manipulating public opinion and automated hacking are just three of the threats from artificial intelligence in the wrong hands, experts have said.

The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence report warns that AI is ripe for exploitation by rogue states, criminals and terrorists. Those designing AI systems need to do more to mitigate possible misuses of their technology, the authors said. And governments must consider new laws.

The report calls for:

  • Policy-makers and technical researchers to work together to understand and prepare for the malicious use of AI
  • A realisation that, while AI has many positive applications, it is a dual-use technology and AI researchers and engineers should be mindful of and proactive about the potential for its misuse
  • Best practices that can and should be learned from disciplines with a longer history of handling dual use risks, such as computer security
  • An active expansion of the range of stakeholders engaging with, preventing and mitigating the risks of malicious use of AI

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday February 22 2018, @03:07AM (2 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Thursday February 22 2018, @03:07AM (#641596) Journal

    Online, everyone is an expert in AI. At least with nukes, they were just "they go bang".

    Let us keep in mind that one doesn't need to pass a nuke building test in order to post on the internet. But one does need to pass a modest intelligence test. And in addition, almost all of us are experts in tasks that require some degree of intelligence. We might not rise fully to your definition of intelligence, but as far as esoteric subjects go, humans have a large amount of experience with aspects of AI that they never will with nuclear weapons.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 23 2018, @12:38AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 23 2018, @12:38AM (#642116)

    We might not rise fully to your definition of intelligence

    ^ the closest khallow will ever get to humility

    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Friday February 23 2018, @05:58AM

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Friday February 23 2018, @05:58AM (#642236) Journal

      ^ the closest khallow will ever get to humility

      As long as you recognize that you can be wrong and that the universe doesn't revolve around you, then you are as close to humility as you will ever need to be.